Standing in the sunshine, surrounded by palm trees, I picked up my little girl and moved closer to my husband, Eddie. ‘Say cheese!’ the photographer said, as we beamed for a family photo with our then 19-month-old daughter, Leah.
We were at a friend’s wedding in Mauritius, dressed in matching outfits… and, for me, the most amazing thing was that, now a size 10, I felt so confident in front of the camera in my traditional Indian sari.
‘I FELT LIKE I HAD A STEEP MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB’
For years I’d avoided having photos taken. For a girls’ trip in the same country just five years earlier, I’d covered up in a